8800 series for AGP???

This is all I have heard about the Geforce 8000 series comingto AGP. http://www.digitimes.com/mobos/a20070904PD209.html

I say overall it would be better to build a new machine. Why spend $300 (assuming that the 8800 AGP will be at this price point if it's released) into a dying slot?

as has been said before, it is physically possible for them to put an 8800 series gpu on an agp 8x interface (due to a bridge or otherwise), but the upper half of its performance would be cut off, due to a bandwidth limitation (its completely saturated and exceeded the available bandwidth that agp has to offer)... similar to pairing it with anything less than a high end C2D in this respect. the bottleneck will be there, but most users wont notice the difference in performance.

so, they very well could, but no telling if they will yet, simply because of the subpar theoretical performance as a result of putting it on agp 8x, may be bad for marketing, but who knows... now if they came out with an agp 16x slot, that would be a different story.

well, 8x agp = 8x pcie, as far as bandwidth i believe... and 8x pcie was bottlenecking the 8800 series. only when they moved up to pcie 16x was the remaining performance unlocked.

it was an earlier article on THG within the last year or so, so it shouldnt be too hard to find.

the 8800 series was actually the first series of gpus to completely saturate the agp interface, every gpu before that though, from both nvidia and ati were still able to fully perform being on just agp.

edit: found the article http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/0 [...] index.html

The only system you should buy a 8800gts for would be an 4800 x2, with a 939 agp board. As Emp said the x1950xt is the best choice, but the Pro version is even cheaper at the cost of about 7-15% performance hit, but you save yourself about 97 dollars(w/o the 30 dollar rebate on the x1950pro).

generally people that want life breathed into an agp system should get an x1950 of some kind or another since they are pretty much the best cards on agp